This Week in Elasticsearch - January 29, 2014

Welcome to This week in Elasticsearch. In this roundup, we try to inform you about the latest and greatest changes in Elasticsearch. We cover what happened in the GitHub repositories, as well as many Elasticsearch events happening worldwide, and give you a small peek into the future of the project.

Elasticsearch Ecosystem

Here's some more information about what is happening in the ecosystem we are maintaining around Elasticsearch, including plugin and driver releases, and news about Logstash and Kibana.

We released Elasticsearch Marvel yesterday, Elasticsearch's first product for management and monitoring. Marvel is free for development use. You can get the full story on Marvel from Boaz Leskes in his post Why We Built Marvel.

Where to find Us

We'd love to feature all the great Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana presentations and meetups happening worldwide in this section. If you're speaking or hosting a meetup, let our Community Manager, Leslie Hawthorn, know!

Germany

Britta Weber will present on Customizing Your Scoring Using function_score at the Munich Search Meetup on February 5th. Sebastian Paetzold from ysura will speak on Permission Management with Elasticsearch. Doors open at 7 PM.

The Elasticsearch New York Meetup will be held on February 3rd. In addition to hearing from our host, The Ladders, about their use of Elasticsearch, Shay Banon will be on hand for Q&A on all things Elasticsearch.

The Elasticsearch DC Meetup will get together on February 5th at 6:30 PM. Attendees will be treated to an in depth look at how NGP VAN uses Elasticsearch.

The next Elasticsearch Boston Meetup will take place on February 6th. Attendees will be treated to an open Q&A from Elasticsearch creator Shay Banon, plus a series of lightning talks. Doors open at 6 PM.

Leslie Hawthorn, Kevin Kluge and Jordan Sissel will all be presenting at the 12th Annual Southern California Linux Expo, a.k.a. SCALE 12x. If you can't catch the talks, make sure to stop by our table to say hello. SCALE runs from February 21st-23rd.

The Elasticsearch Denver Meetup group will be getting together on February 24th to hear about Automattic's use of Elasticsearch. Doors open at 6:30 PM and Elasticsearch core developer Lee Hinman will also be on hand for Q&A.

We're working on setting dates for our first ever meetup in Portland, Oregon. Sign up for the Portlandia Meetup Group to get regular updates.

Where to Find You

Our Community Manager, Leslie Hawthorn, is hard at work to help folks create more Elasticsearch meetup groups and to help meetup organizers find more speakers. If you are interested in either effort, take a moment to let her know.

Oh yeah, we're also hiring. If you'd like us to find you for employment purposes, just drop us a note. We care more about your skill set and passion for Elasticearch, Kibana and Logstash than where you rest your head.

Trainings

If you are interested in Elasticsearch training we have courses taught by our core developers coming up in: